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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tess sends a letter to ____ asking for advice about whether she should tell Angel the truth.
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her sister.
(d) The parson.

2. What does Tess find out from Marian?
(a) That Angel asked Liza Lu to go away with him.
(b) That Angel asked Rhetty to go away with him.
(c) That Angel asked Izz to go away with him.
(d) That Angel asked Car Darch to go away with him.

3. Tess makes a request of Angel, in case something happens to her. What does she ask?
(a) She asks him to marry Izz.
(b) She asks him to bury her body at Stonehenge.
(c) She asks him to marry Liza Lu.
(d) She asks him to bury her body at sea.

4. With what quote does Hardy end the tale?
(a) "[T]he President of the Immortals, . . . had ended his sport with Tess. And the D'Urberville knights and dames slumbered on in their tombs unknowing."
(b) "[T]he President of the Immortals, . . . had ended his sport with Tess. And the D'Urberville lords and ladies slept on in their tombs unknowing."
(c) "[T]he President of the Immortals, . . . had ended his sport with Tess. And the D'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing."
(d) "[T]he King of the Immortals, . . . had ended his sport with Tess. And the D'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing."

5. Angel reconsiders his attitude towards Tess and his rejection of her, when ___.
(a) Alec writes to him and asks him to divorce Tess.
(b) An Englishman he meets in Belize tells him he was wrong to abandon Tess.
(c) He hears that Tess is in contact with Alec again.
(d) An Englishman he meets in Brazil tells him he was wrong to abandon Tess.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Tess learn is responsible for the change in Alec?

2. Angel and Tess set their wedding date for ____.

3. Angel finally learns that Tess is where?

4. What advice does Tess receive in response to the letter she has sent asking for advice about whether to tell Angel the truth?

5. After Angel returns from Brazil, he leaves his parents' home and sets out to look for Tess. Where does he go first to look for her?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Angel react to Tess's confession about her past?

2. What happens when Tess and Angel are at Stongehenge?

3. In Chapter 40, how is Mercy Chant described?

4. In Chapter 31, Tess asks her mother's advice about what to tell Angel. What does her mother tell her?

5. What does Angel find when he goes to Marlott? What action does he take and why?

6. Describe the scene of Alec's murder.

7. What new disaster befalls the Durbeyfields in Chapter 49?

8. What is the significance of the scene at Stonehenge?

9. How is Flintcomb Ash described in Chapter 42? Why does the description also fit in with Tess's attitude at this point?

10. Several individuals are instrumental in changing Angel's attitude towards Tess during their estrangement. Describe what they do, and Angel's reaction to this.

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